The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word LANK which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2020.
Gaunt crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LANK | 26 % | 4 |
| BONY | 22 % | 4 |
| LEAN | 12 % | 4 |
| RAWBONED | 10 % | 8 |
| ANGULAR | 9 % | 7 |
| SCRAWNY | 9 % | 7 |
| SPARESET | 3 % | 8 |
| HAGGARD | 3 % | 7 |
| BAREBONED | 2 % | 9 |
| LANKY | 2 % | 5 |
| EMACIATED | 2 % | 9 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gaunt
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- emaciated
- haggard
- thin
- pinched
- wasted
- lean
- skeletal
- cadaverous
- bony
- lank
- sallow
- ashen
Crossword Answer definitions
LANK verb- To become lank.
- Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
- Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
- (of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (Often associated with being greasy.)
- Languid; drooping, slack.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result LANK
- Long and lean
- Limp, of hair
- Slender
- Tall and thin
- Rangy
- Long and slender
- Unduly long and slender, as grass
- Lean
- Slender and thin
- Gaunt
More clues leading to the result BONY
- In need of fattening up
- Undernourished
- Like a skeleton
- Like a witch's fingers
- Extremely thin
- Scrawny
- Skeletal
- Too thin
- Skinny
- Like unfilleted sardines
More clues leading to the result LEAN
- Like Spratt
- Like superior deli meat
- Low in fat, meatwise
- Deli order add-on
- "Lawrence of Arabia" director
- Bend away from the vertical
- Like Jack Sprat
- Rangy
- Sprat's preference
- "Ryan's Daughter" director
More clues leading to the result RAWBONED
More clues leading to the result ANGULAR
- Having sharp corners
- Bony
- Lean and bony
- Sharp-cornered
- Gaunt
- Like many Cubist paintings
- Not curved
- Very lean
- Like some physiques
- Rawboned
More clues leading to the result SCRAWNY
- Hardly like Atlas
- So unlike a he-man
- Gaunt
- Too thin
- Overly thin
- Unpleasantly thin
- Ill-nourished
- Gangly
- Emaciated
- Lacking meat
More clues leading to the result SPARESET
More clues leading to the result HAGGARD
- "King Solomon's Mines" author
- Tired-looking
- Drawn
- He wrote "King Solomon's Mines."
- Worn and drawn.
- He wrote "She."
- Rider of fiction.
- Rider.
- Wan
- Rider
More clues leading to the result BAREBONED
More clues leading to the result LANKY
- Ungracefully thin
- Gangling
- Ungainly
- Like many Olympic high jumpers
- Like some long-limbed people
- Tall and spare
- Thin and rawboned
- Tall and thin
- Long-limbed
- Hardly obese